"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
"Why is the Crush The Left party letting the Theocracy party crush the left? This must be some kind of innocent misunderstanding. I'm sure they'll come around any day now."
hi, cis folks!
we need pressure on *every* senator to kill the anti trans care amendments to medicaid & the ACA in the GOP budget. they’d harm >25% of US trans people!
but if you’re a person with “blue dot in a red state” in bio, this is a big moment to stand up. key GOP senators need calling! ⬇️🧵
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
Over at Liberal Currents, I wrote about what drives the tech lords' obsession with AI. For many, particularly for men like Musk, AI is a substitute for religion, offering the hope of salvation from the Ninth Circle of Divorce.
AI offers them a heaven where no one will make them feel bad ever again.
Plastic deformation of systems and structures.
The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground.
Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary
Here's how to do that, step-by-step:
It might be that folks have missed the fact that Elon has gone through a whole Nazi radicalization process. Including pushing antisemitism on twitter to the point he lost a large part of the advertisers.
youtube.com/watch?v=V3QW...
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees.
It’s finally time to release my newest project: FollowTheCrypto.org.
This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
Let me just say this, as a historian, a woman of color, and a person who grew up in Germany: the idea that fascists will soften their politics once they're in office and that democratic institutions have some kind of inherent magical strength is false and dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/o...
The true agony of atrocity--like the one being committed against Palestinians--is the way it obliterates life, joy, and possibility. It kills dignity before it kills the body.
If witnessing is needed, it is to witness everything the IDF is trying to obliterate, not the results of their fell work.
Two things can be true simultaneously:
Voting for Democrats is necessary
and
Voting for Democrats is insufficient
It’s the desire to pit these concepts against each other that creates friction where there would otherwise be consensus.
1/ I was having a conversation with a friend about my book, and he asked me to clarify the difference between the Zionism that the various ideological schools of Zionism (Cultural, Labour, Revisionist, Religious, etc.) adhere to, and what is taught in suburban synagogue Hebrew schools in the USA.
“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
